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"It was a splendid population - for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home - you never find that sort of people among pioneers - you cannot build pioneers out of that sort of material. It was that population that gave to California a name for getting up astounding enterprises and rushing them through with a magnificent dash and daring and a recklessness of cost or consequences, which she bears unto this day - and when she projects a new surprise the grave world smiles as usual and says, "Well, that is California all over."

- - - - Mark Twain (Roughing It)

Thursday, November 14, 2013

Ex-TARP GOP official eyes Brown challenge

Not exactly an "A" list candidate

Jerry Brown is not attracting major, well known opponents.

(Politico) - Former Treasury Department official and TARP administrator Neel Kashkari is likely to run for governor of California as a Republican in 2014 and has begun the process of gathering advisers for an anticipated campaign, POLITICO has learned.

As President George W. Bush’s assistant Treasury secretary for financial stability, Kashkari was the lead official tasked with overseeing the 2008 bank bailouts. He left the investment firm PIMCO earlier this year, citing a desire to continue a career of public service.Republican sources say Kashkari, 40, has not made a final decision to run for governor and he is not expected to attend the Republican Governors Association retreat in Arizona this month. But he is already taking counsel from a group of experienced California hands, including strategist Aaron McLear, media consultant Todd Harris and pollster Neil Newhouse and his firm Public Opinion Strategies.

Reached by phone, McLear offered only this comment on Kashkari’s intentions: “Neel has been traveling the state talking to Californians about the challenges they face and to determine how he can best help.”

Kashkari has made no secret of his interest in pursuing elected office at some point. He has spent much of 2013 touring the state and his Twitter feed includes photos of him picking crops in Salinas, visiting a homeless shelter in Sacramento and speaking to students in East Palo Alto.

Kashkari has also met with Republican donors to assess the financial viability of a campaign, and sources said that Republicans in Kashkari’s orbit had begun reaching out to possible campaign aides, though no one has yet been hired.

Republicans face steep odds in the California gubernatorial race: In 2010, Democrats won every statewide office there despite a national GOP wave and a lavishly-funded campaign for governor by billionaire eBay alum Meg Whitman.

But rebuilding and rebranding the California GOP has to start somewhere, and some in the party believe an unconventional candidate like Kashkari could help start that process with a sober and policy-driven campaign.

On his website, Kashkari names education and economic growth as areas where Californians ought to be dissatisfied with their government. “Unfortunately today California 8th graders rank 49th in student achievement while a devastating 21% of Californians are either out of work or underemployed,” he writes on the candidate-style web page. “And Sacramento’s budget ignores literally hundreds of billions of dollars of liabilities.

Two other Republicans have already announced for the 2014 race: former Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado and Assemblyman Tim Donnelly. Neither is viewed as a formidable contender.

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Paul Gann and Howard Jarvis

Declared "Public Enemies #1 of the People's Republic" for daring to be the Fathers of the modern Taxpayer Revolt in 1978 with Proposition 13 and the Gann Spending Cap. Their crime was to tell the people that they have the right to keep their own money and not turn it over to their Marxist Overlords in Government.

Governor Ronald Reagan

Declared an "Enemy of the People's Republic" for daring to balance the budget, support capitalists, oppose Socialism, create jobs and wealth.

U.S. Senator Richard Nixon

Declared an "Enemy of the People's Republic" for daring from day one in office to vigorously and effectively oppose Communism at home and around the world.

Governor Frank Merriam

Declared an "Enemy of the People's Republic" for daring to send in National Guardsmen armed and with fixed bayonets and machine guns to put down a Communist Longshoreman's strike and for defeating Socialist Upton Sinclair for Governor in 1934.

U.S. Senator George Hearst

Declared an "Enemy of the People's Republic" for daring to show initiative and walk from Missouri to California, for going into farming, business, mining (the Comstock Load), creating wealth with his bare hands out of nothing and providing jobs for the people.

Governor and Senator Leland Stanford

Declared an "Enemy of the People's Republic" for daring to Found the California Republican Party in 1856, build the Central Pacific Railroad, create jobs, businesses and wealth. Founder of Stanford University.

Governor Romualdo Pacheco

Declared an "Enemy of the People's Republic" for supporting ranchers, gold miners and the capitalist creation of wealth and jobs.

U.S. Senator John C. Fremont

Declared an "Enemy of the People's Republic" for daring to support capitalists, gold mining and fight for his country.

About Me

"Stood in firelight, sweltering. Bloodstain on chest like map of violent new continent. Felt cleansed. Felt dark planet turn under my feet and knew what cats know that makes them scream like babies in night.
Looked at sky through smoke heavy with human fat and God was not there. The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later. Born from oblivion; bear children, hell-bound as ourselves, go into oblivion. There is nothing else.
Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose. This rudderless world is not shaped by vague metaphysical forces. It is not God who kills the children. Not fate that butchers them or destiny that feeds them to the dogs. It is us. Only us.
Streets stank of fire. The void breathed hard on my heart, turning its illusions to ice, shattering them. Was reborn then, free to scrawl own design on this morally blank world. Was Rorschach."
- - - Rorschach, Watchmen (1986)

California Gold Rush (1848 - 1855)

This was a time that is hated with a deep and seething hate by all Socialists, Communists and Statists. During the Gold Rush common men and women sought their fortunes in a new world without the benefit of the wise and learned counsel of overeducated and worthless bureaucrats. People took the task of creating raw wealth into their own hands. No intellectuals were available to lecture the workers about the wonders of the eight hour day, worker's rights, unemployment insurance, workplace rules, "fairness" or early retirement. Intellectuals were neither wanted nor needed because intellectuals do not work for a living. The Intellectual Elite exists to tell everyone how smart they are and how everyone else is doing things wrong. Early California was a place for those who worked for a living.

Central Pacific Railroad

The Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR) is the former name of the railroad network built between California and Utah that formed part of the "First Transcontinental Railroad". It was rapidly built between 1863 - 1869. The "Golden spike", connecting the western railroad to the Union Pacific Railroad at Promontory, Utah, was hammered on May 10, 1869. Coast-to-coast train travel in eight days became possible, replacing months-long sea voyages and lengthy, hazardous travel by wagon trains. This project would never be built today in the Luddite People's Republic. There would be endless delays, environmental impact reports, labor unions, lawyers, court battles and Government Drones blocking every move.

Building the Golden Gate Bridge (1933 - 1937)

Financed and built by California in a record four years. The bridge ranks as one of the great wonders of the world stimulating the economy and creating endless jobs and wealth. Today it would never be built.

The People's Republic of California today

The #1 goal of the all powerful Big Brother State is the Marxist re-distribution of the wealth to the Elite so it can be used to buy votes in the next election. Today jobs and wealth are opposed by the Luddite Socialists because they claim it creates an un-equal society. Modern Californians are living off everything that was built by their ancestors. New projects that might create wealth are furiously opposed by an endless stream of Luddite-Leftist interest groups.

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